The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-12-29
THE AUGEAH STABLE.
The Grand Jury Assumes the Rolo Of Her
cules and Orders the Court House
Cleaned.


To Hon. L. p. PadgeH, Judge:
We the grand jurors for the De
cember circuit court beg to report
The bills which we have found
are chiefly for minor offenses, mis-
demeanors, such as pistol carrying
gaming, ETC., and violating the Ii
quor laws. We do not think the
commission of heavier offenses is or
the increase.
(They found the officers bonds
all good).
We think the crazy man, Sulli-
van, now confined in the jail should
be sent to the county asylum.
The court house heeds attention
very badly. The south wall has
sprung and should be rodded. The
roof leaks badly and is running the
plastering upstairs. 1t should be
repaired because the winter rains
will entirely ruin the walls if there
is delay. We think the county
court chairman should be authoriz
ed to do this at once and new roof
should be put on if needed TO pro-
tect the building. The plas eriDe
should be replaced. The circuit
clerk should he authorized to have
this done in the circuit court room
and the hall and the county clerk in
the county court room. We com
mend the circuit clerk for the re
pairs he has made in purCuance OF
Judge Patterson's order. The
room is now decent and lit for the
uses for which it is intended. We
think the clerk should be further
authorized to have the wall Of the
court room, at any rate, cleaned and
white coated. The heating apparatus
in both the court rooms is wholly
insufficient and out of date. Mr..
Braden and Mr.. Ezell should be
authorized to purchase and have
put up in their respective court
rooms two large barrel stoves coal
stoves-that hert after, next winter,
if not sooner, coal may be burned
and the room heated. We think
Mr.. Braden should be authorized to
buy about 80 plain, strong, new
chairs to accommodate attendant s
on the circuit court. There is now
no seating capacity at all to speak
OF reserved for the lawyers, litigants,
Witnesses and officers who are COM
pelledto attend the sessions Of court,
and the unssemly spectacle Of
men sitting on the tables reserved
for writing is daily presented. They
will cost only about 80 cents each.
They should be branded 'Giles Cir
cult Court" so they may be distin-
gulshed and known. Mr.. Ezell
should be authorized to provide
about 20 like chairs for the county
court room.
We think the court rooms should
be used only for the courts and not
for any and all kinds OF meetings,
speakings, gatherings and conyen-
tions, religious, political, agricul-
tural and otherwise, as by this pro-
miscuous use of the county's prop
erty by any and every body the room
is sure to be damaged. We think
the quarterly court should make an
order 10 this effect on the clerk and
sheriff and that your honor should
do likewise as to the circuit court
room.
We found the county asylum well
kept and the inmates we'll cared for.
The chimney of one of the cabins
smokes badly and should be torn
down and rebuilt with deeper fire.
place. There are now the following
number of inmates: .
White males, IL, females 10; cole
ored males 4, females 3. Total ~.
Following is schedule Of prop
erty:
90 stockhogs, 5 cattle, 13 sheep, 2
mules, wagon and harness. 1859
pounds pork, 80 bushels peas, %
gallons lard, so bushels wheat, 300
gallons sorghum, so bushels Irish
20 of onions, IS of tur-
nips, 5 barrels picked cabbage and
beans, stacks old fodder, 3847
binds new fodder, 1000 pounds clio
yer hay, $50 binds oats, 100 chick
ems, 125 bushels sweet patatoes rails
ed and now on hand so bushels, p
barrels soft soap made, II barrels
now on hand, 224 barrels corn.
The trustees books show the
state of the treasury az follows: